The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Specialist
Rank 191 206 216
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Support Specialist 8 13 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.126% 0.165% 0.291%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.181% 0.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 20
Average daily rate £488 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.87% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £275 £287
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £453 £489
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+12.93% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £22.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +21.95%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Specialist
London

Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Support Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Support Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Support Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Specialist across the City of London region.

City of London Support Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Specialist in their job title.

1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) ION Trading
3 4 (26.67%) ION MarketView
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) UNIX
3 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 3 (20.00%) XHTML
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 3 (20.00%) C
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) Sybase
4 3 (20.00%) SOAP
4 3 (20.00%) XML
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Ajax
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared

Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) XHTML
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) SOAP
1 3 (20.00%) XML
1 3 (20.00%) Ajax
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) WinForms
3 1 (6.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (26.67%) ION MarketView
2 2 (13.33%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) LAN
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) EDRMS
2 1 (6.667%) MS Access
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 1 (6.667%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (26.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.667%) Replication
3 1 (6.667%) Clustering
3 1 (6.667%) Thin Client
3 1 (6.667%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) UNIX
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Migration
1 3 (20.00%) PRINCE2
1 3 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
2 2 (13.33%) Change Control
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) Process Management
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Database Security
3 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
3 1 (6.667%) Document Management
3 1 (6.667%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (6.667%) Wealth Management
3 1 (6.667%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) PHP
3 3 (20.00%) C
3 3 (20.00%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) VB
4 2 (13.33%) C#
5 1 (6.667%) VBScript
5 1 (6.667%) VBA
5 1 (6.667%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) PMP
2 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.667%) MCP
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) SCCM
1 2 (13.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) ION Trading
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase
3 2 (13.33%) Sun
4 1 (6.667%) Metastorm
4 1 (6.667%) VMware
4 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) Bloomberg
4 1 (6.667%) Symantec
4 1 (6.667%) IBM
4 1 (6.667%) Fidessa
4 1 (6.667%) Citrix
4 1 (6.667%) Tradeweb